New Delhi: A man killed his teenaged daughter and 38-year-old wife after they refused to withdraw a POCSO case against him in Delhi’s Narela.
A case was registered against the 38-year-old man for sexually harassing his 16-year-old daughter.
According to police, the man — who had assaulted his wife and daughter earlier also — is absconding even as police have formed several teams to arrest him.
On Saturday, neighbours heard screams and commotion from the victims’ house and called the police.
“An investigating officer reached the house and found two women lying unconscious in a room on the ground floor of the house. They were taken to a hospital where doctors declared them dead. We have registered a case against the husband who is on the run,” said DCP (Outer) Ravi Kumar Singh.
The couple had been living separately for the last two years, after the man left his wife.
“The accused was allegedly in a relationship with another woman,” the DCP informed.
Last November, the man’s wife and sister-in-law allegedly assaulted his girlfriend who filed a complaint against the duo for assault, criminal restraint and criminal intimidation.
In January 2024, his daughter lodged a case against him for sexually harassing her.
It was registered in Narela under sections of POCSO Act and IPC (now BNS) sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 354 (assault to woman with the intent of outraging her modesty) and 354B (assault to woman with intent to disrobe her).
The man, sent to jail for two months in the POCSO case, was granted bail in March, police said.
With the case in trial stage since March 20, the man had been urging the victims to withdraw it.
The woman used to run a general store in the area, while her daughter was a Class 9 student at a government school.
“The suspect tried to pressure the mother and daughter to withdraw their case against him, but they repeatedly refused to do so,” said the DCP.
“On Saturday morning, the suspect came to meet his wife and daughter, and an argument broke out. In a fit of rage, he hit both of them with an iron pan and fled,” said the DCP.
